Latest Posts When it comes to predicting people’s preferences, it pays to consider “the power of three” | MIT News by Rimal Isaac 6 Minute In his 1927 paper, “A law of comparative judgment,” the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people select
Gadgets MIT affiliates win 2026 Hertz Foundation Fellowships | MIT News by Rimal Isaac 5 Minute The Hertz Foundation announced that it awarded 2026 fellowships to three current MIT students as well as an incoming graduate student. They
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Product Launches Justin Solomon appointed associate dean of engineering education | MIT News by Rimal Isaac 3 Minute Justin Solomon, associate professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), has been appointed associate dean
Tech News The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing | MIT News by Rimal Isaac 7 Minute The following is a joint announcement by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and IBM. IBM and MIT today announced
Industry Trends MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone | MIT News by Rimal Isaac 6 Minute Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) arrive with a booklet of their best, most original
Industry Trends Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure” | MIT News by Rimal Isaac 4 Minute Confidence is persuasive. In artificial intelligence systems, it is often misleading. Today’s most capable reasoning models share a trait with
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Stocks MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact | MIT News by Rimal Isaac 6 Minute The early years of faculty members’ careers are a formative and exciting time in which to establish a firm footing